Friedrich Wassermann

Friedrich Wassermann , also Fritz Wassermann , (born August 13, 1884 in Munich , † June 16, 1969 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American anatomist and histologist .

Friedrich Wassermann, son of Franz Wassermann and Amalie Techheimer, devoted himself to the put-away Abitur a study of medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , which he in 1910 with the acquisition of the academic degree of Dr. med. completed. Wassermann has held an assistant position at the anatomical institute there since 1908 and completed his habilitation in anatomy in 1914. After participating in World War I , Wassermann held the extraordinary professorship in anatomy from 1920 to 1936 , and later also in histology and embryology in Munich, since 1931 he was director of the Anatomical Institute.

Robert Wetzel was a student of his .

1936 due to the Nuremberg Laws dismissed, emigrated Wassermann 1937 in the USA, where he worked as associate professor , since 1943 as a full professor at the University of Chicago taught. From 1949 until his death he worked at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. In 1952 he worked as a visiting professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and in 1954 at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main . Friedrich Wassermann was admitted to the Leopoldina as a full member in 1952 , and in 1965 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Leopoldina on the occasion of his 80th birthdayAwarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , in 1968 he was appointed Honorary President of the Anatomical Society. Wikipedia